Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania View of Beaver Falls, from the borough of New Brighton.
View of Beaver Falls, from the borough of New Brighton.
Location in Beaver County and state of Pennsylvania Location in Beaver County and state of Pennsylvania County Beaver County Beaver Falls is a town/city in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States.
It is positioned 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Pittsburgh, and on the Beaver River, six miles (9 km) north of its confluence with the Ohio River.
Originally called Brighton, Beaver Falls was chartered as a borough in 1868.
In the 1870s, Beaver Falls was home to a Chinatown and had as many as 200 Chinese residents. Travellers would often stop in Beaver Falls while transversing Western Pennsylvania, since there were many modes of transit through the region (railroad, highway, canal).
The town/city was also linked to Ellwood City in 1914 by the Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler and New Castle Railway, an interurban street car line.
On May 31, 1985, an F3 tornado hit just north of the town/city as it went athwart northern portions of Beaver County, as part of the 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak. Geneva College is positioned in the College Hill neighborhood on the north side of the city.
The world's first recorded college basketball game occurred in the town/city on April 8, 1893 when the intramural team from Geneva College defeated the New Brighton YMCA.
Like most rust belt cities, Beaver Falls has suffered a fair amount of economic malaise due to the diminish in the steel-making capacity in the region.
Beaver Falls is positioned at 40 45 32 N 80 19 11 W (40.758865, -80.319737). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2), of which 2.1 square miles (5.4 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km2) (7.02%) is water.
Beaver Falls Municipal Authority In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.9% under the age of 18, 16.7% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 18.8% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
A view of Downtown Beaver Falls in 2013.
Beaver County Christian High School Big Beaver Falls Area School District Beaver River Trail, a paved rail trail that runs over the former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad right-of-way along the Beaver River.
Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls, the first enhance library in Beaver County.
Reeves Field is the playing field for the Beaver Falls Fighting Tigers and the Geneva College Golden Tornadoes football teams.
The closest airport to the town/city is Beaver County Airport.
Although positioned in Allegheny County, Pittsburgh International Airport is inside close adjacency of Beaver Falls, and is easily accessible by way of I-376 (former PA 60). I-376 is positioned just west of the city, and is accessible from Beaver Falls via PA 51, PA 551, and PA 588.
PA 18 is the chief road through Beaver Falls, and becomes the city's Main Street when going through downtown.
PA 65 is positioned southeast of Beaver Falls in New Brighton.
Plus, the Pennsylvania Turnpike is positioned just north of Beaver Falls, providing access to the entire state.
Major freight haulers CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) both have mainlines running through Beaver Falls.
NS also has a subsidiary line along the east side of Beaver River.
Although not used for transporting goods and materials, the Beaver River is a navigable waterway for boating.
"Chinese Workers In Beaver Falls".
Britten, Kenneth, Beaver Falls Gem of Beaver County, Arcadia Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0-7385-2382-8.
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Municipalities and communities of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States
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